What's So Incredible About MBDTF?

I’m not trying to start beef or anything, I just don’t get what is so incredible about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? I thought it was amazing for the first 6 or 7 tracks, but then it progressively got more and more boring. At one point I just wanted it to end so I could call it an amazing album like most people. Is there some kind of a storyline or something that makes it so great? Because what I got from it was Kanye exposing his life to us, with his life being the “Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”. Somebody help, and I’ll even go back and listen to it with a different mind state. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t bad at all, I actually thought it was a great album, I just don’t understand how it’s the greatest album of the decade.

There isn’t really a storyline, but there is a concept.
On the surface level, the album is broken into 3 parts.

Beautiful:
Dark Fantasy through All of the Lights
Dark:
Monster and So Appalled
Twisted:
Devil in a New Dress through Who Will Survive in America

The last half of the album does slow down a bit and get more personal, but I like the change up. It’s Kanye at his more weak (not musically) and vulnerable (well, he was pretty vulnerable on 808s). I love Runaway, great production, and that outro is one of Ye’s most emotional moments as an artist. Blame Game too, with that outro being both hilarious, and sad. Hell of a Life was back to Ye being funny, outrageous etc. and served as a little break in these songs. Also Devil in a New Dress was, like Blame Game, funny and sad at the same time. Plus that instrumental between Ye and Ross is the shit. Ross also delivered one of his best verses. Lost in the World is one of my favorite Kanye songs too.

To be honest I feel the same about MBDTF, to me, it doesn’t beat the likes of Pinata in production nor it doesn’t beat the likes of GKMC in lyricism.

It’s a very good album, I’d say maybe a weak 8, but it really doesn’t blow me away at all, it doesn’t help that it was made by Kanye, because if another artist such as a J Cole made it, we would NOT be hyping it up as anything near album of the century.

It’s a very all-rounded album, there is hardly any filler (except maybe Hell Of A Life), good production, great features, but it isn’t a classic, that is reserved to the VERY best of all time, this is not that.

Here it comes

We’ll it did give me eargasms..
No weak tracks..
first time i heard power it was like I was in another planet..
best verse from nicki minaj ever .
so appalled was mind blowing
runaway was sad and emotionally touching
devil in a tight dress is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard.
lost in the world’s vibe gets me crazy..
blame game-I found the phonecall skit very hilarious..

I think the better question is what was so incredible about Rick Ross’s verse on Devil In A New Dress? It was a pretty basic verse. If anybody other than Ross had used that verse, it wouldn’t be considered very good.

For me, the production was 10/10. I have never heard beats like that in my life. Kanye was also at his peak lyrically and the guest features, which I didn’t expect to do well, fucking killed it. Damn, even people who hate Rick Ross liked his verse on Devil in a new dress.

It wasn’t his best album but it still is better than 90% of them all. This album like all of his albums portray a different side of him. The production was 10/10 and his beats were great. His first three albums ARE all classics. MBDTF was not close in lyricism but the content was there as always.

Another thing that made the album a classic was the length.. It wasn’t not one song on there that was less than 4:00. When i heard the album it felt like each song was an album inside an album. && @iCiCle I agree with you on Power. Personally thats my favorite Kanye track and it’s something bout the outro to that song that gives you some type of feeling!